News-Gazette covers mayoral candidates police & alternative responses
Urbana, IL (News-Gazette) — “I’m going to have strong opinions about law enforcement,” she added. “As a child, I survived an assault by my grade-school teacher. As an adult in Chicago, I survived armed robbery, and, before moving to Urbana, home invasion.” In each instance, she wishes there had been technology to track and document what happened.
“As a person who has experienced these traumas, I take effective law enforcement seriously,” she said. “And as a person who has friends and family who are not White and not straight, I need law enforcement to be equitable and just.”